Most consumers of porn are men. Most porn is made for men to masturbate to, with scenes averaging 5 – 10 minutes in length. There is little dialogue to get in the way of the masturbation act. Women are used as sex objects and ejaculation targets. Most porn today is shot down and dirty, reality or gonzo style, produced as cheaply as possible.

“No one puts a lot of money into porn any more. Within a week of releasing new porn videos, the videos are available free, pirated and loaded onto tube sites and torrent sites mainly hosted overseas where take-down notices don’t mean a thing in those countries.” This is the insider reveal from a friend who didn’t want to be named in my blog, but who works for a large porn producer. “We survive off of the older porn consumers who don’t use the tubes and torrents, or those who’ve had a bad experience using them, such as getting a virus on their computer when they watched or downloaded porn from one of those sites.”

So does it come as any surprise that major porn companies are looking at a huge untapped market…female consumers. “We just opened a lesbian site. Typically our sign-ups would be males. We are also marketing this site toward lesbians and bi-curious women, women who want to see what a lesbian experience would be like. It’s too soon to know if this site will be a crossover success. But we’re definitely looking into marketing more toward women, lesbian, bi-curious or straight. According to our market research, female consumers would be less likely to source their porn from tubes and torrents. They don’t have the internet freebie mentality. They tend to be safe surfers and don’t want to view pirated material.”

I asked if this would mean that there would be more crossover porn or porn produced for a female audience by the company he works for. “I think it’s definitely something we’ll be researching and testing. Although the lesbian porn we’re already producing, I think it’s pretty hot stuff, it’s not objectifying the actresses or degrading them. The emphasis is on girl-on-girl sex with real orgasms.”